We're doing our part. Keep winning and hope that eventually the Rays lose a couple games in a row ...

Tampa Bay scored three times in the bottom of the eighth to rally from behind and beat the Angels 4-2. Toronto scored single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to squeak past New York 2-1, dropping the Yankees 11 GB the Rays. The Blue Jays are in 4th place, 12 GB.

In his wins and no-decisions this season, Dice has an 1.87 ERA (115.2 IP, 95% of his innings)! In his losses -- only six innings -- his ERA is 19.50.

SoSH discusses a possible aspect of his pitching philosophy -- would Dice rather walk a guy than "give in" and allow a hit? Are his high walk totals more of a strategy than a lack of control? The many walks -- and the subsequent higher pitch count -- mean more work for the bullpen, however.

It's strange. The expectation and hope for Dice-K when he came over was for him to eat innings and pitch deep into ballgames. He's got so many pitches, it'd be amazing to see how he'd do if he did challenge more hitters. Trust the defense!

I love Youk's versatility. You can put him in virtually ANYWHERE. He's not your prototypical lead-off hitter, but he did well there. Same can be said for the clean-up spot, but here he is, and it works. He's not Manny, but he's been doing well in that spot.

Put him at first, third, outfield. He just works. It's very impressive.

...connect cards. I'm in a swamp, and look what I found! The internet!

In this case it'd be, "I found the internet, but I don't know where the hell I am!"

The funny thing is it's always the other way around- the card isn't supposed to work, since they don't know where it is, so they assume the worst and black out all of them. So I always need to use the hotel's wireless or something. But tonight it's the other way around.

Anyway, I should stop talking about this. MLB probably has agents monitoring blogs to catch criminals like me.

I'm sorry to say I have not read the book. But the movie is more of a sort of a Burroughs mashup. The "story" more describes the writing of the book than the book itself, although there is a memorable monologue straight from the book in which a man is terrorized, then devoured, by his own asshole.

On the whole Naked Lunch thing:I love Cronenberg, One of my faves. And I liked the movie more than the book. The book is, well, very Burroughsy. No plot, no cohesiveness, just a series of very visceral, visual, unnerving, sexual (in the dirty, totally physical, no emotion and no eroticism sense), psychotic scenes. It's good.

I don't know if that's why he's having the tingling and numbness, but they said pinky and ring finger, and if you've ever had carpal tunnel or ulna nerve compression, you know those are the fingers that go first.

If you ever hit your "funny bone" really hard, you can sometimes feel the shock up to the tips of those fingers.

This thread is funny---Zen and Ofer having one conversation while Laura and I have another. Sort of like going out with another couple where the men have one conversation and the women another. (I usually don't like when that happens.)

The only time I like when that happens is when the man is a bore and the woman is interesting. I am sure it happens the other way also, but then I just find a way to get back into the other half of the group!

Evening all...just popping in for a bit before dinner tonight. Nice to see a) the team winning and b) another Tek dong. I'm also willing to accept a bollocking for my remarks last night - from now on, I promise to bitch and moan when the team's either losing or tied. :D

You haven’t done anything special, Red Sox and Yankees. You’ve spent your way to the top. You’re the Paris Hilton of baseball, successful because you’re rich, a winner only because there’s no plausible way for you to lose.

Shit, I'm on mute and apparently I missed a Yahoo Sports ad. Is Ashley Russell back? I miss the dulcet tones of her voice, sweetly caressing my ear over and over and over and OVER again every fucking inning.

Evening all,Settling in for the evening.Sox are winning - yea!Did a little skimming over the thread.Cool that Tek hit another dong!Delaying that inevitable trip to the graveyard. And Ofer - is King Crimson really still performing!? Well, obviously so, you just said so. Duh. Are they still anywhere near the same band? Listened to them a lot way back when, but haven't in quite a while now. How was the show? It's kinda hard to imagine how they would be live.Also - my 2 cents - I much prefer being with people where everyone is in on the conversation, but there are certainly times when the 2 conversation thing is an absolte necessity.

I think my point is that people get sexually involved with the "wrong" people because they are NOT thinking. I doubt Heidi (if it is true) gave any thought to her career---she was driven by hormones, just like Clinton et al. The fact that those men used their power to get what they wanted makes it more despicable, but it doesn't make Heidi any more stupid than they were.

I don't think we are disagreeing. I think we are both saying these people all engaged in stupid, high risk behavior without thinking of the consequences.